From: David MacMahon <davidm@...>
Date: 2013-08-13T11:25:36-07:00
Subject: [ruby-core:56604] Re: [ruby-trunk - Feature #8772][Open] Hash alias	#| merge, and the case for Hash and Array polymorphism


On Aug 10, 2013, at 7:46 PM, trans (Thomas Sawyer) wrote:

> Based on this line of reasoning I formally request the Hash#| be an alias of Hash#merge.

Issue #7739 is similar, but requests that Hash#| be added an alias for ActiveSupport's Hash#reverse_merge.

I think that the functionality of ACtiveSupport's Hash#reverse_merge is more inline with your Array#| analogy than Hash#merge would be.

Dave